Black Queen: Stray: Fated Mates Paranormal Shifter Romance (Shifters Among Us Book 1) by Lidiya Foxglove

Author:Lidiya Foxglove [Foxglove, Lidiya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Waylon

“Mother. Fucking. Shit.”

“I’m sorry,” Ansel said over the phone. “All I could do was bail. They almost shot me. I have no idea how Esther Merryweather knew your name.”

“I don’t know. It’s definitely something to find out. But…that means Frankie is just trapped there?”

“They put a collar on her,” Ansel said, sounding more miserable by the second. “Damnit. I just had the choice between both of us getting captured and you not even knowing what happened, or…”

“I get it. Just—fuck!” I screamed.

“You’re pretty upset about this. I thought you hated her.”

“She fucked up my life and she pisses me off, but she’s the kind of rival I would rather torment personally, and besides that, I know how useful she is. I am not about to be outwitted by a business mom.”

“That reasoning checks out,” Ansel said.

“Well, stay out of the hotel room for a bit. I need concentration. I’ll try to see if I can find her. Talk to her.”

“That seems a little risky. Maybe I should be there.”

“I won’t be able to concentrate with you around. This spell is hard as it is. So just—give me two hours.”

“All right. I’ll have a drink in that bar on the corner,” Ansel said. “Or maybe…seven drinks.”

We hung up and I turned to my suitcase of spells I’d brought with me, trying to anticipate every situation. Man, I hoped I had the right stuff. If I wanted to get in contact with her…what worked best? Dream magic? We had to be sleeping at the same time, and I’d bet she wouldn’t be getting a good night’s sleep. Astral projection would allow me to find out how she was doing, if I could manage it. I took a quick breath. Tricky stuff.

“Mugwort…I know I brought that…sandalwood would be good too. Did I bring sandalwood?” I murmured to myself. I had tried to bring spell ingredients to cast any magic I’d need. I had everything organized alphabetically and made Braille labels, although I didn’t know Braille very well myself. It was still much better to use any sort of code to label spell ingredients so that if some enemy got ahold of them, they couldn’t use them easily. Still, the ingredients were just there to assist. A sorcerer was only as good as his own focus.

This was a really hard sort of spell. Way too specific. Magic worked best when you didn’t try to force it. I had never actually managed to use astral projection to spy before, so I had no idea if it would work.

Never hurts to try, Leif would have said. Brother, magic is simple, once you’re grounded in your own body.

Like it was that simple. Being ‘grounded’ in your own body was not as easy as it sounded, and in the end, it turned out Leif was battling his own demons. He gave me a lot of words of wisdom when I needed them, and then…he killed himself. I was still struggling with forgiving my unlikely mentor for that.

But all the work I’d put into reaching that state was the only reason I was here.

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